The City of Pineville is officially urging the protection of jobs maintained by Cleco. 

During a May 13 city council meeting, council members voted to approve a resolution making a similar statement to House Concurrent Resolution 11 in the State Legislature. Resolution 11 urges the Louisiana Public Service Commission to only approve the sale of Cleco under “certain circumstances.”

The Pineville City Council has essentially issued their own call for the protection of Cenla jobs by not approving the sale of the utility. Their resolution passed unanimously. 

“It’s important, and you never want to lose business, not only locally, but on the state level,” stated Tom Bouchie, City Councilman for District 4. “So, if we can try to do anything to maintain the jobs that are here and get them thinking about how important it is that they stay here, or whoever buys them, or the Public Service Commission, who actually put that into a requirement in the last sale, that they had to maintain a certain number of jobs, maintain them for at least ten years before anything else was done.”